The PhotoIreland Collection

A unique resource in Ireland

The PhotoIreland Collection has been hosted at The Library Project since 2013, making its holds available to national and international organisations. In July 2025, the collection moved to PhotoIreland's new museum, the International Centre for the Image

The PhotoIreland Collection started its life as ‘The Library Project‘ in 2011, aiming to bring to Irish audiences a collection of publications around Photography, complementing those of the public and university libraries, and building the core of a public resource library. To date, it holds thousadns of items from hundresds of publishers worldwide.

Imagine a library dedicated to Photography and Image Culture with unique, contemporary publications from all over the world, free for you to enjoy.

Initiated in 2011 by Claudi Nir and Ángel Luis González Fernández, The Library Project set out to offer the public an on-going collection of the latest photobooks, magazines and zines, whether produced by publishing houses or self-published.

In 2012, the collection was expanded with the efforts of Arcangela Regis. Then, Claudi Nir, Alison Baker Kerrigan, and Svetlana Zabelka started cataloguing the items. In 2013, with the support and passion of Steven Maybury, Katie Mooney-Sheppard, Gill Thorpe, Sinéad Corcoran, and Lorna Murphy, the collection kept expanding, it was catalogued, and was finally made available online. Many other individuals have kindly contribute to the cataloguing since, including TU Dublin BA Photography students Billie Johnson (2016), Liam Devine (2017), Aleksandra Klimczak (2018), Arman Duzel, Michael Croghan, Andrew Nally (2019), and many others to date, who carried out the Archiving in Context module as part of the course programme engaging with the PhotoIreland Collection.

The curated selection holds already a respectable number of titles, and welcomes everyone, both individuals and organisations, to contribute to and enjoy this unique public resource library. This website offers an online catalogue with most of the items in the collection being constantly updated.

Visiting the PhotoIreland Collection

Located now at the International Centre for the Image, the PhotoIreland Collection is accessible as a research library during the museum's opening hours.

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